♫ Stuff to do around near the coast this weekend includes tonight a music quiz at the Framlingham Crown, the freeLaxitude all weekend with Lyrical Jukebox and naughty Harleston boys Red Mecca playing tonight plus Maritime Woodbridgetomorrow and Sunday.

sa 28 Jul2018

It's going to be a busy Sunday tomorrow with the Dunwich Dynamo passing through near the coast in the early hours, open gardens in Double Street Framlingham, freestep dancing at the Blaxhall Ship, classic car day at the Debach Airfield and St Lawrence's Brundish will be visited by The Right Reverend Martin Seeley Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, probably the first visit by the diocesan bishop in sixty years and there's a picnic as well.

Thankfully it's rained and no doubt will again soon ... mind you it's already becoming a bit annoying.

fr 27 Jul2018

This is an interesting double, around 9pm tonight there will be the longest blood moon this century. About the same time the Beeb are forecasting (let joy be unconfined) a second thunderstorm for near the coast.

su 15 Jul2018

Looks like it probably won't rain today St Swithin's day.

sa 14 Jul2018

Sign in Ashbocking advertising free horse manure not surprisingly by the stables with a dressage ring right on the B1077.

th 5 Jul2018

Village fetes this Saturday include Cretingham, Bedfield (on the sports field) and Otley both of which start at 2pm.

Here's a new one (to us at least) Splat Quack GoSuffolk's Muddiest Mud Run. superficially a Woodbridge happening tomorrow but in fact just outside Hollesley ... entries accepted on the day and it sounds a teensie bit like those Zombie Evacuations.

tu 12 Jun2018

Expect delays and parking difficulties when the Women's Tour of Britain starts in Framlingham tomorrow (we enjoyed the 2014 stage start in Felixstowe), takes a turn around near the coast, returns to Framlingham and then goes on to finish in Southwold.

su 3 Jun2018

It would seem everything happens in June. A selection gleaned driving today include next weekend KettleburghFete and over the border EustonRural Pastimes, the weekend after PalgraveVintage Rally and on the 23rd June Hoxne Summer Fair 2:30pm at Abbey Farm.

sa 19 May2018

There's an initiative for the community to buy the Brundish Crown, we hope they succeed, near the coast certainly doesn't need fewer pubs.

su 13 May2018

Stonham Aspal may have lost it's pub but the village hall is very active with bingo, film, pub and quiz nights.

We've paid for Suffolk Coastal's garden rubbish collection starting this month. We've opted for the bigger bin and were looking forward to re-purposing going forward the old bin to store yet to be chopped up kindling ... but the bigger bin doesn't arrive until August.

♫ Musical nights out tomorrow around near the coast include 5 In A Bar at St Mary's Sweffling with refreshments (we last 5 In A Bar at the 2014Great GlemhamChristmas show), and Man in the Hat at the Knodishall Butchers Arms. ♫

sa 28 Apr2018

The airfield museum at Debach opens during summer opens on the last Sunday of the month so that'll be tomorrow then plus also tomorrow young farmers at Easton Farm Park.

we 28 Feb2018

The Shepherd and Dog at Forward Green (it's between the A140 and Stowupland) has a giant TO LET sign outside. Tripadvisor and someone who told someone else seem to think it's closed and has been for a bit. We're pretty sure the letting agents are Fleurets who specialise in pubs and shops but we can't find it on their website ... maybe that's why it's got stuck.